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mexicano

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Can someone tell me what does "start disk clean up" do? Is it like defrag on pcs? And if so, why is it restricted and asks me for a pin number to proceed?
Thanks for any help.

| Tue 13 Jan 2015 9:31:39 #1 |
-gonzo-

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It's one of life's many mysteries as I don't think anybody actually knows the official answer.

| Tue 13 Jan 2015 9:54:55 #2 |
mexicano

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Wow!! Unbelievable. OK, I'll leave it alone, maybe one day the mystery will be solved

| Tue 13 Jan 2015 10:41:57 #3 |
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mexicano - 41 minutes ago »
Wow!! Unbelievable. OK, I'll leave it alone, maybe one day the mystery will be solved

Pure speculation, it might clean up some files left after recordings are deleted. I have run it a few times, good news is it doesn't have any bad effects either. Linux operating systems don't need defragging like a Windows drive.

| Tue 13 Jan 2015 11:25:32 #4 |
mexicano

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If it is ok to run then what is the pin number? And no, I haven't setup parental controls before you ask There is nothing in the manual about it as far as I can see.

| Tue 13 Jan 2015 12:00:31 #5 |
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The default pin number is 0000 (4 zeros).

| Tue 13 Jan 2015 12:07:58 #6 |
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mexicano - 6 minutes ago »
If it is ok to run then what is the pin number? And no, I haven't setup parental controls before you ask There is nothing in the manual about it as far as I can see.

Four zeros 0000 is the default unless you have entered a different one.

| Tue 13 Jan 2015 12:08:39 #7 |
mexicano

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Great thanks. Ran the process, it doesn't seem to have damaged anything.
Thanks again

| Tue 13 Jan 2015 12:59:37 #8 |
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mexicano - 2 hours ago »
Great thanks. Ran the process, it doesn't seem to have damaged anything.
Thanks again

Now you can sleep soundly knowing your disk is clean.

| Tue 13 Jan 2015 15:44:51 #9 |
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Just for the benefit of the next person who googles this setting in a panic... if your disk is working fine, this should do nothing bad.

We had 150 episodes of a series recorded. (No, there were not 150 episodes in that series - but Humax are rubbish at de-duplication, if it bothers at all. Anyway, that's another story)

When we tried to delete the whole series, it froze for two seconds then rebooted. Each time, it would have deleted around 10 episodes. Still quicker than deleting them individually, but not by much.

Anyway, we got down to 132 episodes, and suddenly the delete series button worked. But it left a single episode still there. There were no contents to the file (Unrecognizable file format was the error, I think), and when we manually tried to delete the file, the Humax gods laughed at us and made a rude gesture in our direction.

This option fixed the problems; as far as we could tell, all other recordings are intact. It took less than 10 minutes (500gb disk @ 65% full)

Of course, your mileage may vary; please clean your disks responsibly!

| Mon 8 Jan 2018 11:25:49 #10 |